New Faculty for Spring 2004

12-31-2003

Please join us in welcoming Elisa Bertino as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of Research for CERIAS. Prof. Bertino holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy. Her most recent position was professor and chair of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Communication of the University of Milano (Italy). She will arrive on campus in January 2004.

Prof. Bertino's research activities are in the areas of security, database systems, object-oriented technologies, and systems. She has published over 250 papers in refereed journals, such as the ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems, and in the proceedings of international conferences and symposia. She is a co-author of the book Object-Oriented Database Systems - Concepts and Architectures, 1993 (Addison-Wesley). She is or has been a member of the editorial board of 11 international journals and she has been a member of the program committee of more than 80 conferences. She serves on the advisory board of IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering and is a co-editor-in-chief of the Very Large Database Systems Journal.

Prof. Bertino is a fellow of IEEE and has recently been named a fellow of the ACM. In 2003, she received the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award for "Recognition of outstanding contributions to database systems, database security, and advanced data management systems".